Re: Which file does the SELECT? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Which file does the SELECT?
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Msg-id AANLkTikoA8JxhLShWchzugnQFw9KtjVGMBLktqpmfMg_@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Fwd: Which file does the SELECT?  (Vaibhav Kaushal <vaibhavkaushal123@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Vaibhav Kaushal
<vaibhavkaushal123@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have started with the work and am using Eclipse and it helps quite a lot.
> I can find the declarations quite easily. Thanks to open Source.
>
> BTW, I am encountering too many (just too many) data types as I try to
> understand the backend (specifically the executor). I do think that its
> normal because the executor has to consider almost everything that the other
> parts of the DB can possibly command it to do.
>
> Is there some documentation available on the data types / structures which
> are in use at the backend?

There's less than one might hope.  I think you pretty much have to
look through the README files and source code comments.

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Robert Haas
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